Best Picture Nominee Blogging Assignment

1.True Grit-True Grit was my number one choice for best picture because it displays punishment, life in the wild west, hardship, character, heart, friendship, and most importantly doing the right thing. The strotytelling merits in this film were excellent because they story took twists and turns when no one expected them, but still put all the peieces back together in a great way. All of the cast in this film had award winning performances because they all played their parts just way you would imagine them if you read the book. The films cinematic merits were also very well done becaus ethey stuck to a theme and kept displaying all the charateristics of a western film, even though i wish they would focus more on Tom Chaney then they did in the movie where he was only shown for a maximum of 10 minutes, which is the only down fall of this movie i feel.
2.The Social Network- i believe this was great story of a man who has always been on a different level smarts then anyone he comes into contact with. It shows his whole life leading up to the invention of facebook. But thing i liked about the film the most was the way it showed is flaws in life, which just shows everyone has problems and that not everyone has a perfect life in hollywood. the storytelling merits of this film was outstanding because it shows all the oppsticals leading up to his billion dollar site. The performance in this movie was also mind blowing because the main actor playing mark zuckerberg does a great job of being smarter than everyone and knowing his limits and the bright future he has in front of him and always stressing that money means nothing to him. The film based merits could have been better only because some the scenes of him being prosecuted got kind of old at times, also some pointless scenes that didnt make sense the first time watching the film. Overall great film and well made.
3.Inception-this was agood movie but i feel couldve been alot better and shorter in length because their were alot of pointless scenes and seemed like they would never end. It had great storytelling merits becaus ethe story is an award winning script becaus ethe theme and message behide the film was genius in my opinion. The performance i believe couldbve been better because the charcters were all so perdictable and didnt fit the charcters that i imagined if i had not seen the film. I believe the film based merits were the worst becausre it skipped around and was very hard to follow along with alot of pointless actions that have no explaination for unless you have seen the movie more than once.
4.Winters Bone-This wasnt a bad movie i just believe that the story behide it was very dark and sad through out the whole movie and it never got better which was really a turn off for me. The message behide the story was terrible to because her father was a meth cooker and they live in this excluded town with familys drugged up all the time, which is a terrible cinematic flaw. The stroytelling was ok but still was not very good only because of the drugs in the movie, but i believe this would be a great anti drug movie. The performances were good only by ree, anyone could be the drugged up hicks in the town, thats not hard. The film based merits were terrble because it was a terrible message and theme, not to mention their was never a climax of the story. becasue if their was it would be cutting her fathers arms off to prove he was dead and thats not a climax at all.
5.The kings speech- this movie was terrible because it is not realistic, how can you have that bad of a speech impedement and be the king, these do not match up and everything about this film was unrealistic and cheesy.The storytelling marits were ok becaus ethe message and theme in it were just a normal movies merits and were not out of the ordinary because you could predict what was going to happen next. The performance by the king was pretty goood but kind of easy and cheesy because all of his problems were unrealistic and made no sense at times. The film based merits were terrible because it skipped around alot and was very predictable and was overall a terrible plot and very simple.
6.Toy story 3-this was terrible movie, i am very mad i waisted my time watching this. all the other toy storys were aculley bareable to watch, this movie sucked and just killed toy story.The storytelling was just like the first 2 movies with nothing new. The performance were the exact same just with a few new charcters which i hated.The film based merits were terrible because the basically copied the first 2 movie. It is to bad they had to make a third movie and completely ruin the first 2 movies with such a terrible third one because i will never watch the first 2 again cause i saw the third one.